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The “wired planet” has no boundaries and no
monopolies of knowledge. The affairs of the world
are now dependent upon the “highest information”
of which man is capable. (In the world of
information theory, the word “information” means
pattern , not raw data.) The boundaries between the
world of affairs and the community of learning have
ceased to exist. The workaday world now demands
encyclopedic wisdom. Ecology is the simultaneous
awareness of the interplay of the total field of
processes. This simultaneity pushes the most banal
situations into high relevance. Under these
conditions, the old forms of specialized job has lost
meaning. It was meaningful only at very low speeds,